⁦ So nice to hear ⁦Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷⁩ pay tribute to ⁦Professor Benjamin Zephaniah⁩ at ⁦CLPE⁩ #CLiPPA

A wonderful #CLiPPA2024 at National Theatre ended with CLPE patron Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷's perfect and moving tribute to his friend the much missed #BenjaminZephaniah. The beautiful video played at the end can be watched at clpe.org.uk/videos/video/b….

Today’s #CLiPPA2024 was in loving memory of the wonderful #BenjaminZephaniah. Thank you Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 for your moving tribute ❤️

Only regret from today was not being able to congratulate @lawrenceschimel and Julio Serrano Echeverría in person. Beautiful poetry in both languages! ¡Enhorabuena! 😊

Have convinced Valerie Bloom to write a poem a day with me for 30 days from prompts or forms. If anyone in this lovely community wants to join in will share the prompt each day. (As a day-1-freebie, today’s is an abstract/sound poem)

I have four daughters. That means I have spent approximately 1/3 of my fatherly life watching the six hour version of Pride and Prejudice.

Help please! I’m looking for picture books, verse novels, or chapter books that are set in central/Eastern European countries. Specifically Poland, Latvia, Slovakia and the Balkans. All primary ages - any help appreciated!

For all teachers who have just been there this term. Thank you for being a safe place for so many children. #schools #TeachersOfTwitter

Day 1 didn’t end up being as nonsense/sound-focused as envisaged (had more of a Jabberwocky feel in mind!), but here it is:

OMG, my mum is still using my school tea towel. Ever the artist, me 🙈 Was it a rite of passage that all primary schools did this in the nineties?!

Don’t know when the next DAw/ David Asscherick is, but would you consider releasing the YT a few hours later as a live premier so those on the other side of the globe can have a live “watch party” more akin to the IG experience? Might not work but worth a trial?

C.S. Lewis with one of the most insightful paragraph ever written

Enjoyed Salma El-Wardany’s interview with Valerie Bloom this morning. Hoping the weather holds out for the tree lighting! 🤞🏽🤞🏽

youtube.com/shorts/cTiUWvi… A poem written for my brother, who was very ill just before starting university. Not in the collection but a poem close to my heart! #meningitis #recovery

The audiobook is now up and available to pre-order in the first couple of retailers! (Spotify, Nook, Storytel - for anyone in Sweden! - and libro.fm.) Others in the pipeline! #GrowingPanes #Audiobook

And we’re live! 🥳🥳🥳

Interpreter training taught me economy of note taking. My lists are code-heavy. Esp items I want to keep secret. I would definitely have “ambiguated” ‘urine bottle’ if it was on my list, in case it fell into the wrong hands! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… with Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷

So many thanks to the DHL Express UK driver who was so considerate and helpful when collecting a delivery today. Went above and beyond!

This. 👇🏽bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This episode made me want to be a lawyer 😬 (Also, Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷’ impression of the judge in the intro made me giggle so much I played it three times 🫣) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…